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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 6573692, member: 112&quot;]No, not at all. Prior to the existence of the TPGs overgrading by individuals across the board, for all grades, was rampant. The TPGs stated publicly that the very reason for starting their business was to put an end to that overgrading. And for about 20 years that&#039;s what they did.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your guess is accurate, that is why and how the term &quot;slider&quot; came into being - long before the TPGs came along. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said, and as I have said many times, prior to 2004 the majority of coins graded by the TPGs (in all grades) were graded correctly. If a coin had no wear it was graded MS. If a coin had slight wear, &quot;rub&quot;, it was graded AU. Yeah, there were some exceptions, but for the most part that&#039;s what they were - exceptions.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2004 and later - that all got thrown out the window.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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